Suffragette Marion Wallace Dunlop: C1909

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The Suffragette Marion Wallace Dunlop.
Whilst serving her sentence Marion became the first Suffragette hunger-striker by refusing all food and fasting for 3 and a half days. She had been classified as a second division prisoner and the hunger strike was her personal protest against the prison authorities for not placing her in the first division where as a political prisoner she would have enjoyed certain rights such as books in their cells, letters, furnishings and to wear their own clothes.